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speendo · 2016-04-30, 10:53

Hello again!

As I am just about to setup my Raspberry Pi 3 (using Raspbian) I have just another question:

I installed Kodi 16.1 (from here: http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/di...in/binary/). I also installed RetroPie (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup).

Now I'd like to launch RetroPie from the Kodi menu. Is this possible?

I read formally there was a way using the Advanced Launcher Addon but this seems to be deprecated now... Sad

I also read there are some developers who want to bring this addon back to live, but I didn't find anything to download yet.

Is there a way? I wouldn't mind writing a few lines of code (although I don't want and am not capable to redevelop the whole Addon Smile

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Btw: launching Kodi from RetroPie seems to be possible (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Set...f-in-ports) but as my system should be a media station in the first place this is not so practical for me...

Thank you!

the_bo · 2016-04-30, 11:25

Osmc can do this. See https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/howto-retros...-osmc/6671

speendo · 2016-04-30, 11:42

Looks very interesting. Is there a way to integrate this with the existing RetroPie installation or would I need to remove RetroPie and install retrosmc instead?

username145 · 2016-04-30, 12:26

https://github.com/bite-your-idols/gamestarter-openelec

Haven't tried it yet, but looks pretty good

the_bo · 2016-04-30, 13:44

(2016-04-30, 11:42)speendo Wrote: Looks very interesting. Is there a way to integrate this with the existing RetroPie installation or would I need to remove RetroPie and install retrosmc instead?

You will have to install osmc first then the retrosmc.

If you have a spare SD card you could give it a test.

Osmc is great. Haven't installed retrosmc but I've been reading the posts on it and looks it works well within kodi.

speendo · 2016-05-01, 02:49

@the_bo
Tried it on raspbian - it didn't work. Looking at the code I found out that this is quite obvious - it is made only for osmc. However, Looking at the code it doesn't seem too hard to adapt the code for other distributions. I will try to do that...

@username145
Thank you for the recommendation. looking just at the github page, gamestarter-openelec seems to use advanced launcher, which is not developed anymore. I don't know if this would be a problem, however, I have a slightly bad feeling about that

username145 · 2016-05-01, 08:34

(2016-05-01, 02:49)speendo Wrote: @username145
Thank you for the recommendation. looking just at the github page, gamestarter-openelec seems to use advanced launcher, which is not developed anymore. I don't know if this would be a problem, however, I have a slightly bad feeling about that

Looking at that page, it appears to be optional. I think it installs itself as an addon, which will launch the front-end and you can go from there

speendo · 2016-05-02, 09:13

Thank you!

It's a pity that neither of the addons can natively be used for Raspbian. I will have to make some changes in either way...

I will investigate a bit further and report my findings Smile

aikoncwd · 2016-05-02, 10:23

Hi, I have the same setup (Kodi 16 from pipplware + RetroPie).

I coded a small addon to launch retropie from kodi:

Just writte some lines in python to execute emulationstation command using OS library

speendo · 2016-05-02, 18:54

Cool!

Does it work well? Do you have it on github or somewhere? I have a little experience with python but if you have a nice and working setup I would love to reuse your code Smile

aikoncwd · 2016-05-02, 20:31

I didn't upload to github, but the process is easy. Yesterday I explained to another user how to do that, here is the thread:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...12#p965712

The thread is in spanish, but it's easy to understand, just use google-translate. In fact you need to edit the /usr/bin/kodi-standalone script and add the python script at the end. Then make an addon to launch from the kodi-menu. In that thread you will find the codes.